-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2016-4a2caa893f 2016-03-29 15:10:57.721296 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : putty Product : Fedora EPEL 6 Version : 0.63 Release : 6.el6 URL : http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ Summary : SSH, Telnet and Rlogin client Description : Putty is a SSH, Telnet & Rlogin client - this time for Linux.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
This is an update fixing possible buffer overflow in SCP protocol when parsing server response (CVE-2016-2563). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1316481 - CVE-2016-2563 putty: old-style scp downloads may allow remote code execution https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1316481 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update putty' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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